The CMA certification represents a broad business competency and mastery of the management-level skills required to add value, drive business performance, and build quality financial practices within organizations. CMAs provide employers with the ideal balance of three essential and interdependent business disciplines: accounting, management and strategy. This powerful combination of skills defines the CMA's unique value to an organization and makes the CMA the designation of choice!

Whether you want to enhance your value within your current organization or expand your career potential, the CMA is the key to maximizing your professional potential.

The certification program has four objectives:

• To establish management accounting as a recognized profession by identifying the role of the management accountant and financial manager, the underlying body of knowledge, and a course of study by which such knowledge is acquired;
• To encourage higher educational standards in the management accounting field;
• To establish an objective measure of an individual's knowledge and competence in the field of management accounting; and
• To encourage continued professional development by management accountants.

A trainee must complete the course with attendance rate over 80% to obtain a certification of Completion in Certified Management Accountant Part I.

• Chief Financial Officers (CFO)
• Chief Executive Officers (CEO)
• Cost Accountants
• Senior Accountants
• Corporate or Division Planning Managers
• Financial Analysts
• Budget Analysts
• Internal Auditors
• Financial Controllers
• Departmental Managers and their deputies
• Treasury Managers
• Students of the faculty of economics